Last week, the trailer for Ender’s Game, one of 2013’s most anticipated films, was released. Other than being highly anticipated, its source material is lauded as one of the greatest Sci-Fi novels ever written. Ender’s Game has a great deal of colleagues with that particular description attached to it that have never been adapted into a feature film …
It’s no big secret I love horror films, but 2012 hasn’t been a great year. In my top ten, three films carry over from 2011, two won’t be released until 2013, two are animated and another isn’t much of a horror film. With that said, 2012 gave us Berberian Sound Studio and Cabin In The …
Toronto – With twenty horror, sci-fi, action, and cult movies crammed into nine nights, and an eclectic mix of short films thrown in between, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2012 gave the Toronto genre fan a multitude of reasons to be sleep-deprived. Before going into a sustained state of hibernation, audiences cast their ballot for which …
Doomsday Book Written and directed by Jee-woon Kim and Pil-Sung Yim South Korea, 2012 H.G. Wells, a godfather of modern apocalyptic literature, once said that, “all this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings who are not latent …
Doomsday Book Written by Kim Jee-Woon & Yim Pil-Sung Directed by Kim Jee-Woon & Yim Pil-Sung South Korea, 2012 The triumvirate anthology film gets a welcome revival in this South Korean horror / SF hybrid picture, with a mixture of social criticism thrown in for oriental larks. After filming two segments of the tale back in …
Fantastic Fest is over but that doesn’t mean we should stop promoting the incredible line-up of movies programmed. It has become a Sound on Sight tradition that once the event has finished, we post a festival wrap-up highlighting our favourite films. Here are the top three picks from four of our writers. You can check …
Doomsday Book Directed by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung Screenplay by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung 2012, South Korea Doomsday Book, the Korean anthology co-directed by Yim Pil-sung (Hansel & Gretel) and Kim Jee-woon (The Good, The Bad and The Weird and I Saw The Devil), offers three unique takes of society in decline and …
While the Toronto International Film Festival holds a well-deserved spot as one of the premier movie events in the city, fans of pulpier fare and cult classics never found a place for themselves the the event. In 2006, however, these fans were given an oasis in the desert in the form of The Toronto After …
Doomsday Book Directed by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung Written by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung South Korea, 2012 How often do anthology films fully come together, with each part perfectly complimenting one another? The answer, despite however many times filmmakers attempt to construct them, is rarely. In fairness, the degree of difficult involved is …
I’ve been lucky enough to attend the Fantasia film Festival since the very first year and make no mistake about it, Fantasia has always been a highlight of every summer since. This year is no exception. With another impressive and diverse line-up, any movie crazed die hard genre fans such as myself are left with …